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Pope Francis urges Myanmar's ethnic minorities to turn the other cheek

In his first public Mass in Myanmar, Pope Francis urged the country's long-suffering ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for the hurt they have endured.

Nov 29, 2017

By David Sim

Pope Francis Rohingya Muslims Human rights

Venezuela: State security forces systematically abused protesters

Dramatic images of police and soldiers cracking down on young protesters were broadcast around the world, but less is known about the thousands more who were hauled away.

Nov 29, 2017

By David Sim

Venezuela Politics Pictures Human rights

Trudeau promises $100m for LGBT soldiers and apologises for 'gay purge'

Justin Trudeau to deliver formal apology in Canadian parliament to LGBT soldiers and police officers who lost their jobs because of anti-gay discrimination.

Nov 28, 2017

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Argentine military submarine ARA San Juan

ARA San Juan: Argentine submarine vanished after 'water entered snorkel causing battery to short circuit'

Argentine submarine ARA San Juan vanished after 'water entered snorkel causing battery to short circuit' 12 days ago.

Nov 28, 2017

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Argentina

Argentine woman cuts off 40-year-old boyfriend's penis using a pair of garden shears as he slept

Barattini Barattini allegedly intruded into her boyfriend's house in the dead of the night before committing the crime.

Nov 28, 2017

By Divya Kishore

Argentina's missing submarine: ARA San Juan commander's final message before disappearance revealed

The Argentine navy believes an explosion may have been caused when by a battery short-circuited when water had entered the vessel through its snorkel.

Nov 28, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Argentine submarine crew could be alive in 'extreme survival' conditions after 11 days lost

Argentine navy will not rule out survival of crew members of missing ARA San Juan submarine, 11 days after it vanished.

Nov 27, 2017

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Argentina

Sex island tourists 'offer to pay $10,000' for week-long binge of drugs and prostitutes

The organiser of a sex-fuelled holiday experience promising access to booze, drugs and prostitutes claim clients have offered to pay up to $10,000 for the debauchery to continue.

Nov 27, 2017

By Staff Reporter

Cuba is back to the 'Cold War days': Cubans see bleak future, one year after Fidel Castro's death

A year after the former president's death, the country is facing economic troubles due to Trump's hostile relationship with the current government.

Nov 25, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Cat named after Notorious BIG shot 15 times - but lives to tell the tale

Feline named in tribute to the late great Biggie Smalls survived barrage of bullets from unknown assailant.

Nov 24, 2017

By Neil Murphy

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Four-year-old snatches $150 from cash machine and fights the man it belongs to

CCTV footage recorded at a bank branch in Valpraiso, Chile, on November 20 shows light-fingered rugrat snatching 97,000 pesos, or $150, from under the nose of a man using an ATM.

Nov 24, 2017

By Josh Robbins

All 44 crew members of missing submarine ARA San Juan feared dead after 'explosion'

The 44 crew members of ARA San Juan are feared dead after reports that the missing Argentine submarine exploded.

Nov 24, 2017

By Brendan Cole

Watch 'World's fattest man' undergo surgery to reduce 95 stone weight

Mexican Juan Pedro Franco completes one hour procedure after successful gastric bypass surgery earlier in the year.

Nov 23, 2017

By Ewan Palmer

'Unusual sound' could provide clue to locate missing Argentine submarine

Navy declined to speculate whether "hydro-acoustic anomaly" might have been an explosion, saying experts did not know what it was.

Nov 23, 2017

By Associated Press

'Help me, Jesus, help me!' Shark attack survivor recalls terrifying day her arm was bitten off

Tiffany Johnson and her husband JJ were snorkelling off Nassau in the Bahamas when the terrifying shark attack took place. She told a church congregation about what happened.

Nov 22, 2017

By Charlotte Tobitt

Rescue efforts in 'critical phase' as crew of missing Argentine submarine to run out of oxygen soon

The search has been expanded to cover an ocean area "two times the size of Buenos Aires", a Navy spokesperson informed.

Nov 22, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Argentina's missing submarine: Undersea noise was not distress signal from crew, navy says

The Argentine navy has not yet ruled out any hypothesis but said that there might have been an electrical problem which may have cut off the vessel's communications.

Nov 21, 2017

By Karen Noronha

Hopes raised for Argentina's missing submarine after noises heard

Argentina's navy is investigating a noise thought to emanate from the missing ARA San Juan submarine that has 44 crew members on board.

Nov 20, 2017

By Brendan Cole

Argentina

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